File: README — Documentation for minimalist

MinimalistAuthentication

A Rails authentication plugin that takes a minimalist approach. It is designed to be simple to understand, use, and modify for your application.

This plugin was largely inspired by the restful-authentication plugin (github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication/tree/master). I selected the essential methods for password based authentication, reorganized them, trimmed them down when possible, added a couple of features, and resisted the urge to start adding more.

Installation

script/plugin install git://github.com/aaron/minimalist_authentication.git

ruby script/generate scaffold user active:boolean email:string crypted_password:string salt:string using_digest_version:integer last_logged_in_at:datetime

Example

app/models/user.rb class User < ActiveRecord::Base

include Minimalist::Authentication

end

app/controllers/application.rb class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

include Minimalist::Authorization

# Lock down everything by default
# use skip_before_filter to open up sepecific actions
prepend_before_filter :authorization_required

end

app/controllers/sessions_controller.rb class SessionsController < ApplicationController

include Minimalist::Sessions
skip_before_filter :authorization_required, :only => [:new, :create]

end

test/test_helper.rb class Test::Unit::TestCase

include Minimalist::TestHelper

end